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Noun: Unclear meaning: 'Someone who takes the piss' or 'a proponent of 'piss art'?[edit]
piss artist (plural piss artists)
- 2009, Siriol Troup, Beneath the Rime[1], page 83:
- Piss-artists all of them, charlatans who'd rather paint a cold fish than a ripe peach.
- 2012, Chris Kerr, As Seen on TV[2]:
- […] the strap-line on the neon sign set over the entrance of the three-storey mock Art Deco building proclaims. Lit up there, in glowing red and yellow, is a cheese-ball that looks like a piss artist's impression of the HIV retrovirus.
- 2015, Pascale Pujol, Little Culinary Triumphs[3]:
- And to create a diversion you have been suing Thomas Ferreira for torture and barbarous acts, on the simple grounds that he supposedly, I quote 'hung your client upside-down above a toilet bowl full of excrement, wrists and ankles bound with scotch tape, wrapped in high-tension electric cables corroded by acid?' Facts for which there is no proof, other than a photograph of the toilet bowl […] He logged in as administrator but couldn't identify Juliette's computer. Impossible to get his hands on it. And yet she had to be connected to the network? The junior piss-artist had managed, therefore, to set up her own firewall, she was undetectable, a regular submarine.
Noun: Someone who takes the piss[edit]
piss artist (plural piss artists)
- 2001 June 7, Stephen Brown, Marketing: The Retro Revolution[4], page 218:
- Just as aspirant poets are weighed down with the weight of prior aesthetic achievements and are driven by an Oedipal desire to supersede their literary forebears, so too todays band of offensive advertisers are beset by the saprogenic accomplishments of the promotional piss artists of times past, P.T.Barnum in particular.